MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book
By exploring the relationship between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, John Rember helps you see how to go deep in your writing. He also tells you what you'll find there and how to get back. Along the way, you'll learn how to see the world as a writer sees it. "If you have real talent," says Rember, "and choose to go it alone without learning from all of the thousands of writers who have gone before you, for a long time you're going to write like Grandma Moses paints." MFA in a Box will help you take language from translucency to transparency, and make your readers feel like you've written for them alone.
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MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book
By exploring the relationship between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, John Rember helps you see how to go deep in your writing. He also tells you what you'll find there and how to get back. Along the way, you'll learn how to see the world as a writer sees it. "If you have real talent," says Rember, "and choose to go it alone without learning from all of the thousands of writers who have gone before you, for a long time you're going to write like Grandma Moses paints." MFA in a Box will help you take language from translucency to transparency, and make your readers feel like you've written for them alone.
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MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book

MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book

by John Rember
MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book

MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book

by John Rember

Overview

By exploring the relationship between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, John Rember helps you see how to go deep in your writing. He also tells you what you'll find there and how to get back. Along the way, you'll learn how to see the world as a writer sees it. "If you have real talent," says Rember, "and choose to go it alone without learning from all of the thousands of writers who have gone before you, for a long time you're going to write like Grandma Moses paints." MFA in a Box will help you take language from translucency to transparency, and make your readers feel like you've written for them alone.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780982579428
Publisher: Grand Mogul Books
Publication date: 01/01/2011
Pages: 274
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

John Rember is a fourth-generation Idahoan. Recurring themes in his writing include the meaning of place, the impact of tourism on the West, and the weirdness of everyday life.

His books include Sudden Death, Over Time (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2012), MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book (Dream of Things, 2011), the memoir Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley (Vintage: 2004), Cheerleaders from Gomorrah: Tales from the Lycra Archipelago (Confluence: 1994) and Coyote in the Mountains (Limberlost: 1989). He has also published numerous articles and columns in magazines and newspapers, including Travel & Leisure, Wildlife Conservation, and The Huffington Post. He has been a professor of writing for many years, most recently as a core faculty member of the Pacific University MFA program (Forest Grove, Oregon). He is Writer at Large at The College of Idaho.

John lives in the Sawtooth Valley of central Idaho.

What People are Saying About This

Randy Richardson

John Rember's MFA in a Box should be on every writer's bookshelf, right next to On Writing by Stephen King and other great books on the art and craft of creative writing.
—Randy Richardson (President of the Chicago Writers Association chicagowrites.org Jan. 2011)

Jeff Baker

Rember's MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book is more than an advice book with a catchy title. What makes it different than the many, many books about writing on the market today is the way Rember engages his readers in some of the issues every writer faces (writing about place, about family, about grief) not as problems to be overcome but as issues to be understood.
—Jeff Baker The Book Editor (Portland Oregonian Jan. 3, 2011)

The Judges of the Hoffer Awards

The essential truths about excellent writing.
—The Judges of the Hoffer Awards (hofferaward.com) May 2011

Robin Metz

Witty, audacious, and wise, John Rember's MFA in a Box is a unique and valuable book that addresses the subject (and the life experience) of Creative Writing from both a practical perspective and in a manner so highly personable you'll read it like a memoir (and want to meet the author). Rember has the storyteller's magic. You'll be enthralled. And walk away a more astute and vibrant writer.
—Robin Metz author of Unbidden Angel, winner of the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Award and Director of the Program in Creative Writing at Knox College (Jan. 2011)

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